Sordid Story

Treason against the United States shall
consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their
Enemies, giving them aid and comfort. . . .

The U.S. Constitution

In a small, imitation-marble pillared Federal courtroom in Chicago last
week, six closely guarded naturalized U.S. citizens, German-born, went
on trial for treason. By week's end the jury (nine housewives, three
men) and a handful of spectators had heard the first grim chapters of a
story that might well have come from the mind of a dime novelist.